Defense

By Tony Osborne
Poland’s PGZ-Narew joint venture, which is developing the country’s Narew ground-based short-range air defense system, has signed agreements with MBDA to supply the missiles for its program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Capella Space has raised $97 million through a Series C financing round that it plans to spend on further developing its automated image analysis software and next-generation satellites.
Commercial Space

Anthony Waas
The curriculum for engineering must expand to include flexible interdisciplinary coursework and hands-on laboratory experience.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
Ahead of its centennial, legendary rotorcraft company Sikorsky Aircraft is seeing several opportunities for growth, the company CEO says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Kelle Wendling is the president of Space Systems at L3 Harris Technologies.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s long-running sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu has received a nine-year, $200 million extension.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
For its Defiant X helicopter, Sikorsky and Boeing have selected Honeywell’s engine and power systems technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA is preparing to return the Space Launch System Moon rocket and Orion capsule to the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 25, following a pair of abbreviated tanking tests at the launchpad.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Marine Corps says the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion reached the initial operational capability milestone on April 22, completing a 17-year journey from the award of the development contract in 2005.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine
A modernization effort for the Lockheed Martin F-35 will take three more years and cost about $741 million more to complete, the watchdog arm of Congress said April 25.
Aircraft & Propulsion

BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE agreed to purchase two A330-200s (TBA) from Azul for conversion to MRTTs; negotiations to convert aircraft will begin in the
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA has a strategy to secure the second of two circular solar arrays that failed to fully deploy and latch following the launch of the $989 million Lucy mission.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A prolonged, privately financed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ended on April 25 with the return of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Three test failures in one year first earned a demotion for the hypersonic Lockheed Martin AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, and then they invited a death sentence.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Poland looks set to choose between two U.S.-produced rotorcraft to fulfill its long-running attack helicopter requirement. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak confirmed on April 21 that Warsaw is mulling offers for two attack helicopters: one from Bell, likely for the AH-1Z Viper, and a second from Boeing for the AH-64 Apache.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Angola is the latest customer for the maritime patrol variant of Airbus’ C295 twin-turboprop airlifter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The four-member Axiom-1 private astronaut mission departed the International Space Station on April 24, ending the first U.S.-backed commercial flight to the orbital outpost and clearing the docking port for the arrival of the next ISS resident crew later this week.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The space sector has unique propellants when it comes to M&A, which is likely to create a “melt-up.”
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Airbus advances X-plane; BAE joins GE on hybrid; Seaglider takes to water; Cross-country on hydrogen; and manufacturing LH2 tanks.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
More Asian states are building their own missiles to keep up with new threats.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Dr. Bernard A. Harris, a retired NASA astronaut and flight surgeon and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk, has been inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy has released the first detailed plans in the fiscal 2023 budget request for a fast-tracked acquisition of a new hypersonic missile for carrier-based fighters.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Brazil announced plans to buy four more Saab Gripen F-39 fighters on April 22, raising the quantity in the initial batch of the single-engine aircraft to 40.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Brazilian Air Force formally inducted the first two Saab F-39E Gripens in a presidential ceremony at Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Rio de Janeiro
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Just under two years after joining Aerojet Rocketdyne as chief operating officer (COO), Amy Gowder is leaving the embattled rocket and propulsion supplier “to accept another business opportunity.”
Space